News Coaching Thread: The Hardwick Era

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Sack Dew said:
After reading the positive reactions from the players I am prompted now to respond to previous chide remarks.

I preface the following that there would be no-one here with more coaching and administration experience as I have had.

It was imperative that Dew had to be sacked. I follow the Suns VFL team closely and enjoy their style of play and know there are many capable of playing a future role in the AFL. Josh Drummond is a great coach and has the ability and quality to lead this club to great heights.

Would be disappointed if the club installed a recycled coach such as Hardwick. This years premiers will be coached by a first time head coach. Let that sink in.

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Are you Josh Drummond?
He's a VFL coach, bit of difference between AFL and VFL

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ajhgcs said:
Are you Josh Drummond?
He's a VFL coach, bit of difference between AFL and VFL

On SM-G996B using BigFooty.com mobile app
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Again such a stupid question asking if I am Josh Drummond.

To enlighten you, if possible, Josh Drummond was an assistant coach last year at AFL level. During the year Dew ‘decided’ to coach from the boundary. Recently on a number of occasions when it was possible Josh Drummond (the seconds coach) was on the bench beside Dew assisting with success.
 
Sack Dew said:
Again such a stupid question asking if I am Josh Drummond.

To enlighten you, if possible, Josh Drummond was an assistant coach last year at AFL level. During the year Dew ‘decided’ to coach from the boundary. Recently on a number of occasions when it was possible Josh Drummond (the seconds coach) was on the bench beside Dew assisting with success.
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How do we know you’re not Josh Drummond?
 

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While the assumption is Wilson got wind of the story through a leak at board level, SEN’s Tom Morris has moved to dispel that thought.

Although Morris doesn’t claim to know how Wilson garnered her information for the story, he says several aspects at play hinted that change was afoot.

“I want to dispel a myth that even some very good people in the media have had,” Morris told SEN Crunch Time.

“In terms of a journalist getting a story, it’s rarely as simple as a CEO, a board member, or a staffer just telling a journo (information) and the journo reporting it.

“It’s rarely that linear. If it was, Caro (Caroline Wilson) would have written it for The Age on Tuesday morning, or she may have gone on Footy Classified on Monday night saying, ‘Stuart Dew is being sacked’.

“It’s never that simple.”

One of those aspects at play was that Gold Coast’s list department was hinting to player managers that a coaching change may have been imminent some time ago.

“The second thing is, there are a fair few players out of contract at Gold Coast,” Morris said.

“I’ve spoken to several player managers this week, who both said that when they asked the Suns a while ago what was going on with their coach, they were told to sit tight and with a nod and a wink, that essentially a big change was likely coming.

“That could have easily been where the news got out, that a big change was forthcoming at the Suns.

“Player managers certainly knew something was on the horizon.

“That was the genesis of Caro’s story. It was hinted to managers that a big change wasn’t far away by someone or a few people.”













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Another myth around Dew’s exit was that he was a universally loved person with the playing group.

While Morris says Dew had the backing of the leadership group and key players, he revealed two highly-touted youngsters didn’t see eye to eye with the coach.

“One more thing, my understanding is Sam Flanders - Pick 11, 2019, and Elijah Hollands - Pick 7, 2020, did not see eye to eye with Stuart Dew,” Morris said.

“Flanders was out of contract and Hollands out of favour. They have both garnered interest from rival clubs and are more likely to stay now than they would have been if Dew was still there in 2024.

“It is frankly wrong that all the players loved Dew, it’s just wrong.

“He hadn’t lost them in a traditional sense, but they were ready for a change.

“They had become frustrated at his communication and feedback methods. And this is not just players out of the team either, who are always a little bit more prone to frustrations due to selection.

One other issue the club had with Dew’s leadership was his tendency to write players off and pigeonhole them into specific roles.

That belief is proven by several ex-Suns that have gone on to achieve success at second clubs.

“There is also a view that he pigeonholed players and too often that showed at other clubs they could play,” Morris said.

“Remember Jarryd Lyons got delisted? Peter Wright, they traded for a 4th rounder. Look at Oleg Markov now.

“Will Brodie played 24 senior games last year at a team that won a final after managing a combined 25 in his previous five years.

“Yes, Stuart Dew is a very good football man. Yes, he had the faith of the leadership group and broadly the playing group to a degree. But no, he wasn’t a unanimously loved figure at the club.

“It was broadly accepted that moving him on was the right decision. His time was up.”
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Dispelling the myths around Stuart Dew’s Gold Coast exit

“It’s never that simple.”
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Sack Dew said:
After reading the positive reactions from the players I am prompted now to respond to previous chide remarks.

I preface the following that there would be no-one here with more coaching and administration experience as I have had.

It was imperative that Dew had to be sacked. I follow the Suns VFL team closely and enjoy their style of play and know there are many capable of playing a future role in the AFL. Josh Drummond is a great coach and has the ability and quality to lead this club to great heights.

Would be disappointed if the club installed a recycled coach such as Hardwick. This years premiers will be coached by a first time head coach. Let that sink in.

Have now discovered that I cannot change my handle as it is no longer relevant.
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wholeheartedly agree about Josh Drummond
 
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The moment Caroline Wilson thought Stuart Dew's job was in 'serious trouble'

It’s been the hottest news story in the footy world this week, with Gold Coast Suns head coach Stuart Dew sacked from the club. Caroline Wilson initially broke the news that Dew wouldn’t be coaching the club next year, and has shed light on the moment she thought his job was in “serious...
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bit more context from Caro
 
Jen2310 said:
Not so surprising that info on flanders and hollands. Reckon they both stay now. They both were mostly out of favour with dew.
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What really pissed those players and others off was the complete inconsistenty in treatment of players in regards to form.
Others who were seen as Dew's job security would not get dropped no matter what they did or didn't do.

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eppo67 said:
What really pissed those players and others off was the complete inconsistenty in treatment of players in regards to form.
Others who were seen as Dew's job security would not get dropped no matter what they did or didn't do.

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well if I was busting my ass on an AFL list and working to get in the team and experienced that sort of favouritism and inconsistency it would really give me the shits
 

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Jen2310 said:
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Could be reading into it too much but did that clip make it seem like Davies is going to play in the seniors this weekend? King wants Davies to be the "most physical and aggressive player on the ground this week". Is that part of his plan to counteract the GWS mids like their inside bull Tom Green?
 
GC2015 said:
Could be reading into it too much but did that clip make it seem like Davies is going to play in the seniors this weekend? King wants Davies to be the "most physical and aggressive player on the ground this week". Is that part of his plan to counteract the GWS mids like their inside bull Tom Green?
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Tom Green isn't playing
 
GC2015 said:
Could be reading into it too much but did that clip make it seem like Davies is going to play in the seniors this weekend? King wants Davies to be the "most physical and aggressive player on the ground this week". Is that part of his plan to counteract the GWS mids like their inside bull Tom Green?
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No offence to Davies, but I hope not. Hasn’t looked quite at the level so far this year.

Plus… Touk, Rowell, Anderson, Swallow, Flanders and Humphrey are enough inside mids. Can’t see Davies replacing one of them at the moment.

Maybe replace Fiorini in his role/sub at best.

Could be more a VFL role that King wants to see him take on. Guess we’ll see.
 

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